{"id":6095,"date":"2020-08-02T04:27:06","date_gmt":"2020-08-02T08:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=6095"},"modified":"2020-08-02T06:06:59","modified_gmt":"2020-08-02T10:06:59","slug":"liberian-independence-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=6095","title":{"rendered":"Liberian Independence Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6100\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6100\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6100\" src=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/D96FDF4B-94D7-4787-8F3B-C65081277299-300x200.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/D96FDF4B-94D7-4787-8F3B-C65081277299-300x200.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/D96FDF4B-94D7-4787-8F3B-C65081277299.jpeg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6100\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hibiscus on OEC<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We enjoyed a nice three-day weekend last weekend. We had JR and Sabina over for masked, socially-distanced coffee, followed by a game of Wingspan. They brought some of JR\u2019s delicious walnut sourdough bread (maybe with raisins or dates?) Delish. They\u2019re so nice and fun &#8211; I hate that they are leaving. After they left, we took a walk over on the old embassy compound on a walkway that runs above\/along the ocean &#8211; it was a beautiful afternoon with some cloud cover and nice breezes.<\/p>\n<p>We had a going-away team call on Thursday. In addition to Sabina leaving, our wonderful Lea\u2019s last day was Friday. Although she\u2019s been working remotely for the last few months, I rely on her heavily, so it is a blow to lose her as she goes to her onward post in Mexico. John loses out, too, since her husband is his financial management officer. We will miss them.<\/p>\n<p>At John\u2019s suggestion, I read \u201cMighty be our Powers\u201d this week by Liberian peacebuilder, Leymah Gbowee, about her life during the Liberian civil wars and her efforts to start a women\u2019s movement to work for peace. It\u2019s an incredible story of a horrific time.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We enjoyed a nice three-day weekend last weekend. We had JR and Sabina over for masked, socially-distanced coffee, followed by a game of Wingspan. They brought some of JR\u2019s delicious walnut sourdough bread (maybe with raisins or dates?) Delish. They\u2019re so nice and fun &#8211; I hate that they are leaving. After they left, we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6095"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6095"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6101,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6095\/revisions\/6101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}